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ta.~y ofState); current national-security
adviser Stephen Hadley; Richard.Armitage,
former deputy secretary ofState;.
William Burns, US ambassador to Rus-,
sia; Marc Grossman, former undersec-.
retary ofState for political affairs; David
Satterfield, now the State Department's
coordinator for Iraq; Elliott Abrams,
deputy national-security advis~r; Paul
Wolfowitz, former deputy secretary of
Defense; and D!luglas Feith: for:mer underSecretary
ofDeferise..
Judge Ellis didn't okay these subpoenas
lightly. He did so after being
persuaded that each ofthese officials
would be able to testifY about specific
meetings or conversations--either with
the !\yo defendants or with others at
,AIPAe-that dealt with information
comparable in sensitivity to the kind
Rosen and Weissman allegedly obtained
and passed on.
Ellis also knew that the subpoenas
might derail dle case., Ifthe administration
balks at allowing sworn testimony
by senior officials about sen" .
sitive conversations, the case
against Rosen and Weissman
could be dismissed.
The line'between inform;ttion
thatcan and can't get passed is
blurred by the amount ofof~
ficially sanctioned daily intel-.
ligenee sharing between the
United States and its ~lIies..
Such exchanges are particularly
intense between the United
States an~ Israel" which regu-,
larly trade information and
assessments on terrorism and
otherperceived threats.
"It's absurd for anyone. to
think that. the Israelis have
to enlist people to spy," says
Sandra Charles, a forme~ Pentagon and
..National Security Council official who
consults in Washington for Persian Gulf
Arab governments. "They can go t